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How to get the parent menu id from the active menu id with the Joomla! 1.6 API

By Ian Carnaghan
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March 25, 2018
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  1. This can be done using the getActive() method from the JMenu class with the Application subpackage. Read More here
  2. Anywhere in your Joomla! code use the following codeline to get the parent IDfor the active id.
    $parentID = JSite::getMenu()->getActive()->tree[0];
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